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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798" Lines 1-50.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of image opens the poem?
(a) An olfactory image of smoke.
(b) A visual image of the mountains.
(c) A tactile image of the grass and tree bark.
(d) An auditory image of the water.

2. What does the speaker say is the best part of a good person's life?
(a) Helping others focus on the important aspects of life.
(b) Gestures of love and respect from others.
(c) Small acts of love and kindness performed for others.
(d) The positive memories created for others.

3. What kind of building is an abbey?
(a) A monastery or convent.
(b) A country home.
(c) A castle.
(d) A cathedral.

4. What kind of confusion does the speaker find himself able to shrug off when he remembers the landscape?
(a) Confusion about his relationships.
(b) Confusion about the difference between philosophy and experience.
(c) Confusion about his own ambitions.
(d) Confusion about why the world is the way it is.

5. In line 26, how does the speaker characterize the rooms he has been in in the city?
(a) "Dim."
(b) "Lonely."
(c) "Darkened."
(d) "Secluded."

Short Answer Questions

1. The word "murmur" in line 4 is an example of which technique?

2. How long has it been since the speaker was last in this place?

3. Who is the author of "Tintern Abbey"?

4. Line 33's use of the phrase "As have no slight or trivial influence" is an example of which technique?

5. Which is most likely to be the intended effect of the repetition and redundancies throughout the first two verse paragraphs?

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